@chryse: Agreed. "This is why we have so many regulations and building codes when it comes to constructing anything in the US."

I'm kind of curious what the spike portion of this thing was for. Pre-holing victims for crucifiction perhaps?

My iPhone 4 didn't go off this morning when it was supposed to. Luckily I had a backup alarm clock in place. Obviously the bit about setting alarms to repeat again after November 7th though isn't accurate.

Does Stargate count as a portal fantasy? It's pretty blatant in the "moving from world to world" aspect, but the new worlds aren't much of a commentary on ours. At least, not most of the time.

@fate47 - meh.: Ha! That could totally be it. Still, I thought it was a legitimate theory.

I thought I read somewhere that time and space essentially looped after long enough rather than simply ending (thus obeying the rule that matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed, just transformed). That could be me mis-remembering some terrible bit of sci-fi though.

@Drummer2boi: You can't honestly say that Apple computers are the future until OS X and Windows are on even footing. When that happens - when they are equal targets for all the malware out there, for any driver incompatibility, for any software at all - then we'll know how they truly compare.

That man's pretty dedicated. I wonder if the arm canon rotated....

@cody2000: LOL! That's pretty awesome. I'd be intimidated by the competition too. I can imagine someone there coming up with hologram tech so they could look whatever they wanted. "Oh yeah, we pitched this to Michael Bay for Transformers, but it didn't explode well enough."

@Boas_MC: Can you tell me what precisely in quantum mechanics allows us to build processors? Because my understanding was that transistors were simply the next step from vacuum tubes in the process of miniaturization and progress. Not that there was some quantum mechanics discovery that allowed transistors to exist.

This is perhaps the first time a villain has sold me on a movie. Tangled was "meh" at best until I saw that clip with the evil mother.

@TheLostVikings: Can you show me how that works? Because I don't think I agree. Man needed a faster way of doing complex math than by hand. Which led to adding machines, which led to computers. The need drove the discovery.

I'm not the only one who thinks this is a bad thing, am I? Memories and experiences make up our character. To erase that, even if only in part, is to erase part of what makes us who we are.

@Presidentpez: Seriously? Did that not get picked up or did it morph into this or what?

@edixoo: I'm a narcissist for wondering how this discovery is applicable to daily life? I don't understand.

@taco-flavored-kisses: In relation to the universe, physically, yes, we are small and somewhat insignificant. But your life is not insignificant to you, nor is mine to me. We don't need to put ourselves on pedestals, but we certainly don't need to devalue ourselves either.

@Kwyjibo: That was seriously the best line in the entire series.

I guess I'm more interested in the practical application of scientific discovery than the discovery itself. Great that this can inform our understanding the shape of distant galaxies, but what does that mean for me today?

Wait, so it's Fables but *not* Fables? That sucks.

@2nd White Line: Totally missed "The Onion" at the top and thought for one crazy moment that was an actual newspaper.